The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Wednesday gave approval for the “cultivated” meat producers, UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat to begin commercially selling their chicken products.
“THE DAY HAS FINALLY ARRIVED!” UPSIDE Foods wrote Wednesday on social media. “We are APPROVED TO SELL our cell-cultivated chicken in the US!”
“This historic, world-changing, moment brings our vision one giant bite closer to reality,” the company continued.
“The final approval comes after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a “no questions” response to GOOD Meat in March of this year, marking the company’s lab-grown chicken product safe to eat.
A similar approval was given to Upside Foods in November 2022.
Lab-grown meat producers say the practice of creating consumable meat products through cell cultivation technology eliminates harm to animals and combats environmental impact
Josh Tetrick, co-founder and chief executive officer of Eat Just Eat Just owns and operates GOOD Meat.
“Instead of all of that land and all of that water that’s used to feed all of these animals that are slaughtered, we can do it in a different way.” Lab-grown meat is created using cells from living animals, such as a fertilized egg, which is incubated and grown into large masses of meat. The product is then cut and restructured into facsimiles of regular, butchered meat products.
“GOOD Meat is real meat, made without tearing down a forest or taking a life. We’re the first and only company in the world to sell cultivated meat made from cells instead of slaughtered animals,” the company wrote on its website.
Ifunanya Ikueze is an Engineer, Safety Professional, Writer, Investor, Entrepreneur and Educator.
